Weekend Journal-How did you sepend yours?

15 years ago

Halloween. For LF's birthday I made him the Danny Phantom costume, complete with hair stuff. He wore it the 24th when the school had its annual trunk or treat, haunted school deal. So he didn't want to wear it again. Even if he did look great!, 'specially the hair. Ed loves to dress up so much, I always think of group costumes. At dinner on Thursday LF and I were brainstorming (Ed was at the Predators, company's box seats) and we came up with the {{gwi:198050}}. LF as Timmy, donning a pink shirt and hat, I as Wanda with her pink swirl hair, and Ed as Cosmo. I liked it. Wanda gets to say, Cosmo, you idiot! a lot, and it seemed easy for us to do. It was a hit. Young and old recognized us, it was funny that a 6 foot tall and 5'4" foot woman would pretend to be fairies, and most of all, we were a family. Everywhere we went, you'd hear kids going, Hey look! Wanda and Cosmo! You're the fairly odd parents, aren't you? LF really liked it. And he hauled home a heaving bucket of candy. At one point, LF said, look a guy from "olden" times. I said, nope, that's Hugh Hefner; it was a guy with a smoking jacket on. And then his dog came trotting up wearing a bunny outfit. Too hilarious!!! He leaned over to Ed and me and said, "Yep, I have tricks and treats".

Saturday. Not only do I have water, and I have hot water, the brand new washer/dryer closet is set in the plumbing arena. Together, Ed and I found all the leftover pieces of plumbing from the old bathroom and "Frankensteined" plumbing which snaked under the floor about 3 or 4 feet into its new position. Yea, recycling at its best! Then we lay down the plywood underlayment for the floor. Its on top of the old floor which is partially hardwood and partially plywood. It had to be covered since it was a) ugly, and b) there are holes in some in the hardwood. What can I say, it's an old house. Some places we restore and some you just deal with. A hardwood floor in the master bedroom closet and w/d closet just didn't make sense here, so plywood with vinyl on one side and the other we haven't decided. Next, we put up the drywall in the master bedroom. That was it for Saturday. LF watched movies and lazed about eating his hoard of candy all day. It was 180 degrees from the last Saturday, pleasant and productive. Oh yea, while I was waiting on Ed to eat lunch and get plumging odds and ends, like the w/d hook up box, I stained the new bathroom mouldings, installed the towel hooks, hung the picture, and the toilet paper holder. And biggest brother Mark fixed the light bar, so all that is left is tweak this and tweak that. Done. Danggit, I wish I had the camera.

Sunday. Ed had to work the Titans game, yea we're undefeated still!, so LF and I went to Starbucks, the grocery store, and then Opry Mills for lunch and a movie. We ended up at the Rainforest Cafe and I had the shrimp platter, while LF ate dinosaur shaped chicken. There were no movies to be found! There are two kid movies coming out, but haven't yet, and no decent movies that I thought LF could see that were PG-13 or R (very select movies here. He knows words are words and we don't hide bodies in our house, but the storyline has to be outstanding for him to see one), so we came home. I'd decided last week that I'd get the porch tool free and in the locked tool cabinet because we can't find anything. It's obnoxious. And I'm tired of having a tool repository in my kitchen. So Saturday I took out what we needed for the current project and then put it away. Sunday, it was time to put the plan into action. I took every tool out the kitchen, off of the porch and into the cabinet and/or garage. That was it. Until the end of the day when it was done, and then I cleaned like a mad woman. My house looks and smells good now. No more tripping over miter saws when cooking. Ah. Much more better. I hung a double towel rack in front of the sink. I'm not sure I like it there, but it may end up in the kitchen yet. I also scrubbed every paint, stain, drywall, etc. droplet on the bathroom floor. I haven't been sealing it, and finally figure out, it's because I don't want it to have any dirt on it when I do. I can now seal it. And put the cabinet in. And the porch is entertaining ready. Glad it inspired so much. I love love love the cleanliness and the organization. I'm inspired enough to find a better system for the tools now. It's all in the cabinet, but I think boxes of project stuff is even better, e.g. a box full of plumbing stuff, such solder, teflon tape, copper caps, etc., a box full of electrical stuff, such as wing nuts, plate covers, etc. You get the picture. Mostly, I am looking forward to dinner on the patio tonight. LF is gonna love that!

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meldy_nva
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Good going! That was quite a lot accomplished; you should feel really good about it. Personally, I got tired just reading about all you did.

BTW, a pal adapted an old-fashioned wooden tallboy (chest of drawers) for tool storage; almost as you said, a drawer for each category. But I really liked that on top of it there were (3? 4?) small craft cabinets, the kind with 40 small transparent drawers. Each drawer has its own category: screws, bolts, S-hooks, picture wire, L-brackets, tapes, etc etc.
krista_marie
15 years ago
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Halloween was beautiful and mild. I made DS's costume, he was the Pac Man game. It turned out really well and it wasn't cumbersome or a vision blocker so that was good. This was the first year I didn't go door to door with him. He went with his neighbor friend whose dad followed along on a motorized bike. I visited with his friend's mom most of the evening and the BF brought a thai carryout. Went to a resale shop Saturday to check out the first Saturday of the month 1/2 off sale. Oooooh boy. I bought a funky set of furniture for the basement. OMG-too cool. Lime green with reversible floral pattern on the other side, teak, I believe Danish Modern. Some would say TACKY- LOL
I LOVE IT, very comfortable and in spectacular shape. Did some cleaning for a elderly fellow Saturday and Sunday. The rest of the weekend was just the usual stuff, church, laundry, dishes, setting up for work Monday a.m...........
I gotta go pick up my furniture : )
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rob333 (zone 7b)
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15 years ago
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Meldy, there is one box FULL of nails and screws alone. Drywall, indoor, outdoor, gavanized, 3" long, 1 5/8" long... whew. I wish I could do clear ones, but I just can't. Suggestions, please. My best idea at present is, I think, a white label slapped across the top with sharpie specifics. Or maybe pink labels for outside, white for inside, and then specifics. Unless you can come up with a better idea? I want him to be able to traverse it easily and want to keep it organized. I could do boxes for plyers only. Screwdrivers only. Hammers only. As there are regular ones, but also specialized ones of those. Amazing isn't it? But the right tool makes the job so much easier.

Krista! Are there pictures of your son and furniture? do you mean to say you weren't Ms. Pacman?
calliope
15 years ago
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No trick or treaters. Never is.
andie_rathbone
15 years ago
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Not too productive around here. I planted most of my spring bulbs, took a couple of naps & read a book.

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The days are almost perfect here with highs in the 70's and low's in the lower sixties to upper fifties. As DH often says, late fall & winter are our rewards for making it through another Texas summer. It's almost time to plant those pansies. Tht may be next week's project.
meldy_nva
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Oops, the tool storage sidetracked me.

Saturday was planned to have DD and SIL help with splitting wood. We lost two trees, I suppose a delayed reaction to all those years of drought. We have a mechanical [10-ton hydraulic] splitter. Usually, DH hefts the logs onto the splitter while I operate the press, constantly counting fingers. But Saturday, SIL hefted the logs, DD tossed the splits into a pile; DH and GS stacked. What I had expected to take a full day, was completed in about 3 hours. Whoooowee! I was prepared to serve them a good dinner, but they decided to have that on Sunday. So Sunday's dinner was spareribs, potato salad, spinach squares, and those big Red Globe grapes. Leftovers tonight.

Rob ~ collect pint-sized (and smaller) jars (plastic is nice if you can find it) and sort the nails one kind into each jar; label the lid. Full boxes that already labeled can of course be stacked at the back of the drawer. Then they can just sit in the drawer, ready for use. I used mayo jars and the ones bouillon cubes come in. Don't get complicated, because simplicity is easier to use and to keep neat. Washers and bolts do best in small jars or drawers. I taped a sample to each lid (DH eyeballs in preference to determining by the ruler.)
lindac
15 years ago
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Well it must have been a good weekend because I put 5 empty wine bottles out for the recycling today!

I have a friend who raises pastured chickens and they were ready. So I went out Saturday morning and picked up the birds I had ordered, and was cutting one up to freeze for small meals for me....and I thought. "hey chick! You were floppin' around the yard this morning, and I am going to freeze you?"
I decided that that bird would never be better than it was that day, so I called some friends and we had oven baked chicken and rice, salad, bread and wine....and about 1/2 the bird was left.
So I cut it off the bones and cooked it up with some mushrooms and celery, onions and red and green peppers and invited different friends and we had another organic, bug eatin' free range chicken dinner...And more wine of course!
Honestly, I did dump half a bottle of wine that was past it's prime...but.
And...let me tell you! There is chicken and there is CHICKEN!
Linda C
jazmynsmom
15 years ago
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Finished my big conference: the culmination of months of work, and my biggest project of the year. 98% of my stuff went well. The other 2% won't kill me.

Barely made it home in time for our 135 Trick or Treaters. Izzy wore her elephant costume and helped me pass out candy. My favorite T or T'er was a three-year-old elephant who had nearly Izzy's identical costume, was timid of dogs, but who was mesmerized by seeing a dog in a costume and just giggled and stared while his brain soaked it all in. Another favorite was the two-year-old bat who flapped his wings for me. There was also a high school boy in an elephant costume and I said "Dude! You and my dog are wearing the same thing! How embarrassing!" The gaggle of high school girls he had in tow laughed at him and I think I got a blush...

Got invited to a neighbor's for chili and a post-Halloween wrap-up. Realized then that I was getting sick.

Woke up Saturday to a beautiful day. Couldn't stand the thought of wasting it, as this time last year it snowed and froze and didn't un-snow and un-freeze --- even once --- until spring. I feel like I'm living on borrowed time, so I dug up my dahlias, accidentally bought some bulbs (with my neighbor, the enabler), and dug up a stupid amount of bulbs from the area that's about to be patio-fied. Didn't get to planting much though...

Then my head-cold and weeks of sleep deprivation and stress kicked in, I hit the wall and I fell into a deep, deep sleep, waking only to catch SNL, and then doze off again.

On Sunday I did nothing but necessary errands and rest.

Today the contractor started the front patio project (there are a few issues already, but I think I can get them resolved)... and our furniture that we've been waiting for for three months for got delivered... and I found out there might be a glitch in the trip to France (I'll know more tomorrow, and in the meantime am obeying Jan's wise edict not to "borrow trouble')... and I discovered something I really want to do while I'm there and am waiting to hear back... and I took a lot of cold medicine, worked all day, and blew my nose until it bled.

Part of me is tempted to complain. I'm tired, sick, and Steve is in Europe without me this week. In spite of all this, I took a step beck and was gobsmacked at the amount of blessings in my life right now. Seriously, things haven't always (ever) been as consistently good for me as they've been the last few years. I keep having remind myself to pass it on, and to savor the moment. And to not *itch so much.
endorphinjunkie
15 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
On the soccer field Friday evening and Saturday morning, then on the couch all day Sunday.....
maryanne_nc
15 years ago
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Spent part of my day Friday at the court house with my attorney going over "fair and equitable distribution of marital assets". Let me tell you something...there is no such thing as FAIR and EQUITABLE distribution of anything marital. However, he accepted my counter proposal with one change and without having to pay a mediator $125/hr, billed in quarterly increments, we shook hands and walked out. It's over and done. I can now officially end this chapter on the last 24 years of my life.

Saturday was spent packing and moving, packing and moving, packing and moving. I've packed and moved so much stuff but it doesn't seem like I've put a dent in anything. By 8 pm I was bewildered so I put on my pj's, grabbed a pint of Ben and Jerry's and called a friend.

Sunday was more of the same with a slight twist. Instead of packing and moving repeatedly, I sorted (for upcoming yard sale), packed, moved and unpacked. I was running low on box tape so I figured what the heck, the stuff would have to be unpacked sooner or later, right? Might as well do it now, haul the boxes back and repack them. By 5 pm, my shoulders hurt to the point they felt like they were on fire.

Somewhere amongst the moving and the time change, my computer decided to give my new anti virus program the boot and I'm now able to log back in here. Have had problems for over a month and no matter what I did, I couldn't get in. Of course, now I'm peeved that I spent $65 on new software for nothing. Oh well...

My new house is sweet. It's the ugliest house on the block (painted an awful shade of pea green) and it sits backwards on the lot...driveway is on the left side, entrance is on the right side and NO walkway between the two. LOL! I love it! The yard is a mess but it's lined with amazing camillia's, gardenia's, and dogwoods. It's a Craftsman house, built in 1949, with gleeming hardwood floors and a completely finished attic where DS can reign supreme. It's small and cozy, so I have to purge all but what I cannot live without, but it feels so right. After umpteen million trips inside, I finally noticed a small brass placard on the front door that reads "Peace to all who enter here". That's exactly how I feel when I enter! I couldn't believe that I had missed reading that so many times, am I that blind? It's firmly nailed into the door so it didn't just appear. It was a bit overwhelming and, being the sap that I am, it made me cry. But, they were tears of happiness, not sadness. And there you have it, the start of the next chapter in my life.

Oh...and I do kinda sorta remember Halloween being in there somewhere....

Maryanne
endorphinjunkie
15 years ago
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Maryanne,

May it go well, and peace be with you.

Michael
Janis_G
15 years ago
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Maryanne, nothing but good things are wished for you
as you and your DS go forward with your lives.

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